The English Novel: A Short Critical History

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Page 102That he gets by is shown by our horror at his behaviour towards Grace Nugent,
whom he loves, his renunciation of her when he believes he has discovered that
she is illegitimate and therefore, as he theorizes, that she must have inherited her
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Page 194Christian ; Trollope sees the incongruities of his behaviour, but he respects him. It
is this charity, this recognition of the gap between ideal behaviour and the actual behaviour of men, that makes him the true successor to Fielding, the Fielding ...

Page 196What he did have was a strong and shrewd grasp of right and wrong in social behaviour and this adds immeasurably to the truth of his picture of society. Take
his very fine near-tragic novel He Knew He Was Right. In a way, the action is ...

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Remember when literary critics read books and wrote about them? No? Well, I do now. He got a few things wrong - what did these people ever see in H.G. Wells? In Meredith? That they should be put next ...Read full review